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This week we have got a fantastic and exclusive competition for our readers in association with the new loyalty app Bink:

One Head for Points reader will win 100,000 Avios.

It could be you ….. and all you need to do is download the Bink app to allow you collect Avios points from your day to day shopping at High Street retailers.

100,000 Avios can get you a long way. It gets two people in Economy to California, Cape Town, Barbados etc – or to Dubai or New York with 20,000 to spare! It would fly one person in Club World to New York, Dubai or Cape Town on an off-peak date – or two people if you have a British Airways American Express 2-4-1 voucher to use. Even if you stay closer to home, it would get you 11 return flights to France, Germany, the Netherlands etc or 6 return flights to Italy or Spain. Taxes, fees and charges, as we all know, will be applicable.

About Bink

We have spent quite a bit of time with the Bink team over the last couple of months.  As you can imagine, we are introduced to a lot of start-up companies who are looking to do something in the loyalty space. I can honestly say that Bink is the most impressive loyalty start-up I have seen and has huge potential.

Once you have installed Bink, you can collect Avios on your day to day High Street spending at participating retailers.  All you do is pay with one of your normal payment cards (registered with Bink) and Bink will ensure that Avios are added to your account based on what you have spent.

PizzaExpress is the first retailer to be launched – earning 3-6 Avios points per £1 you spend – and more retailers are on the way.  We have tested it out at PizzaExpress and it worked perfectly with Avios points credited a few days later.

Bink also allows you to clear up space in your wallet by storing details of all your High Street loyalty cards.  Going forward you won’t even have to show your loyalty card at the till to collect your rewards as long as your payment card is linked.

In order to keep this article focussed on the competition, we have published a separate article today explaining in detail how the Bink app works.  Click here to read that.

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How can you win 100,000 Avios?

As Bink launches its Avios partnerships with additional High Street retailers over the coming months, it will become a ‘must have’ for every Avios collector. You will end up downloading the app at some point, so we recommend that you do it TODAY – and give yourself a chance of winning 100,000 Avios.

The competition is open to all Bink users even if you have already registered with Bink.  If you want to maximise your chances of winning, encourage your partner to install it and enter as well.

This is what you need to do:

First, you need to download the Bink app from Google Play or App Store and create a Bink account.  Ignore the prompt about entering a referral code – this is not necessary.

Second, you need to add at least one payment card and your avios.com card to your account.  You can enter the number manually if you don’t have a physical avios.com card to scan.

Third, you need to link your avios.com account by following the prompt in the app and giving your surname.  This will allow Bink to display your current Avios balance.

Fourth, complete the automated form at the bottom of this article using the same email address you registered with Bink.

If you have already registered with Bink, you can jump straight to Point 4 above – but make sure that you have linked at least one payment card and your avios.com account first.

We will pick a winner from everyone who completes the form below.  We will then ask Bink to confirm to us that a) there is a Bink account with the same email address and b) that at least one payment card and an avios.com card have been linked to the Bink account.  If this is not confirmed, we will pick another winner of the 100,000 Avios.

The deadline for entries is 23.59 on Friday 9th December. The winner will be announced on Head for Points next week.

You can only enter if you are a UK resident.  If you are UK-based but travelling this week, you will need to email a friend back home with a link to this page to enter for you.  You can only enter once per email address and that email address must match your Bink account.

Bink only works with avios.com accounts and NOT British Airways Executive Club accounts.

The rules

The competition rules can be read by clicking ‘Terms and Conditions’ in the entry widget below.  Please read them before entering.

The key points include, but are not limited to:

You must be aged 18 years or over and be a UK resident

The competition will will launch at 00.01 on Monday 5th December and close at 23.59 UK time on Friday 9th December

The email address used on the entry form MUST be identical to the one you use to register with Bink

The winner will be picked at random by the software which collates the entries

The winner will be contacted by email once Bink has verified that the selected email address has been registered with them and that the winner has linked at least one payment card and an avios.com card to their Bink account

The prize will be deposited into an avios.com account within 30 days

The name of the winner must match the name on the avios.com account used to deposit the prize

Entries are limited to one per person

Good luck to everyone. Remember that you MUST you must link one payment card and your avios.com card to your Bink account and you MUST use the same email address when you submit the entry below.

Even if you don’t win, you will find that Bink will be very valuable in helping you earn Avios points from your day to day shopping in the future.

If you cannot see the entry form below because you are reading this via e-mail or RSS, please click here to be taken to a dedicated entry page.

Comments (143)

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  • Tom says:

    Perhaps easier said than done.. the button to manually add loyalty card details on Android doesn’t seem to do a lot.. so I’m a bit stuck with no loyalty card information present!

  • Pete says:

    Good advert but in our experience none of the Avios have credited when we’ve used the app.

  • Nick Ware says:

    It is worth reading the privacy policy for this app. Effectively by adding a payment card, you are giving BINK the authority to monitor and capture data for every transaction to make with that payment card. They then have the right to sell that data to third parties who then have the right to contact you (although in settings you can opt out of that). My concern is that BINK uses will under being bombarded with marketing material from third parties.

    • Chris says:

      Really?
      I’d never have expected Bink to be set up with a planned revenue stream. It’s disgusting how they are trying to turn a profit and should give Avios away for free.

      😉

    • sprout says:

      hmm good point – think I will avoid for now.

      • Rob says:

        All that is doing is what I mention in the other article. If you shop in HMV (made up example) using your Bink registered card and are not a member of the rewards scheme, you will be prompted via the app to sign up, and Bink is paid if you do.

        • Nick says:

          Rob,

          The Privacy Policy is set out below (EDIT: deleted due to size). It appears that by signing up and linking a payment card a user authorising Bink to obtain data of all purchases made with that card from your payment provider / bank. By signing up the user also appears to give consent for them to share that data with third parties for marketing purposes.

          • Rob says:

            Isn’t that what I said earlier though? They get all of your card data so it can be scanned for relevant transactions. They will also tip off other retailers who work with Bink but where you do not have a loyalty card so you can be sent, via the app, an invite to sign up. That is the extent of it AFAIK.

    • Alistair Todd says:

      Instead of responding to people who have completely missed your point, I’ll just say that’s a very important point and thanks for raising it.

      I would urge everyone to read the privacy policy and see exactly what you have consented to simply by registering. Not just what data you are consenting to expose, but also how it will be used and where it will be stored, which includes outside the EU and consequently not subject to EU data protection laws.

    • Arun T says:

      If Bink want to know about my 3 x Starbucks coffees and TFL spend, Friday drinks (and associated late night Burger King) – they are more than welcome to try and monetise that if they wish!

      • Genghis says:

        Sold to an insurance company: you don’t get enough sleep and hence the need for 3 coffees, you drink way too much and eat very unhealthily. Surely life insurance premiums would go through the roof?

        This kind of data gleaning scares me and is why my personal information online (Facebook, LinkedIn etc) is very limited.

  • Heather says:

    Unfortunately it says my Barclays Visa card does not participate in the program. Since this is the main card we use, probably won’t be too much benefit for us.

  • mark2 says:

    I never win competitions so will wait to join until it is confirmed that this is not another Supercard/Curve fiasco.

    • Choons says:

      You have already won life’s lottery just by being on this site!

      • Rob says:

        That would be the Curve ‘fiasco’ where you were able to withdraw thousands of pounds from an ATM, have it charged to your Amex as a purchase, and then Curve gave you back the £35 you paid to sign up?

        Or was that the more recent ‘fiasco’ where they let you sign up for free and gave you £5 on top for your trouble?!

  • Gavin says:

    Signed up using Facebook link, do I use my email linked to Facebook for the comp?

  • Mark says:

    Refuses to run on my Android phone with Cyanogenmod so uninstalled.

    • Wally1976 says:

      Mine seems to work fine (Wileyfox Swift)

    • Ben E says:

      I got it to run on mine… only app I’ve ever had issues with on Cyanogen is the PayQwiq Tesco turd which won’t work and their support team doesn’t care about 🙂

  • Corrine says:

    all done successfully, but that DOB selector must be the worst one ever designed (unless you are young lol) !!

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